sorry james..
sorry james...
that is one of the most common yet incorrect statements about plug in electric cars....
Yes you will move some pollution to a power plant... but none of the Gasoline is solar.. wind .. or hydro ... some of the electric is...
even putting those asside all together... a coal burning power plant will produce less pollution to produce the power to drive the electric car than a ICE ever will hope to get to... If I remember correctly i think it is someing like the pollution from even the dirtier power plants useing fosel fuels will produce so little pollution your car would have to get over 100 MPG all the time in order to even break even with the dirtier power plants.
it is just crazy to think that the small little engines we have in cars will be anywhere near as efficient as a huge facility building the size of any power plant... plus power plants are under far tighter controls than cars are....
if you want I know I can dig up some studies for if you like.... but in a nut shell ... power plants produce less pollution than cars do even when they are producing the power to drive an electric car.... the plug in hybrid... would just allow you to move more of that pollution to a more effiecient power generating facility than your car is... and it will be a nice steping stone to move people closer to PURE EV !!!!
Also don't forget that to move a car with Electricity will cost you maybe $8 for 200 Miles worth of electric only pure EV travel.... ever look at your electric bill... you aren't talking about allot of electricity here.... most electric cars get about 4 or 5 miles per KWH of electricity .. look at what your electric company charges you per KWH and figure how many miles you drive a month.... also remember a 100 Watt light bulb on for 10 hours is 1 KWH .
EV's are cleaner.. even when the electricty is produced via fosel fuels... and it is easier to build new power plants than to convince people to buy new cars that are actually good for the environment.
my 2 bits.